WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Three college football players who saw a teammate get fatally shot by police outside a suburban bar were brutalized by officers and arrested when they tried to help their mortally wounded friend, their lawyer said Wednesday. ...

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I wrote last week about the defamation lawsuit Rick Reinhardt filed Julie Ensor, his rival for clerk of the Baltimore County Circuit Court. The article prompted some online discussion, and the big question was one my editor posed when I ...

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A Baltimore police officer who struck another car while furtively investigating a suspected drug deal was not “pursuing” a criminal suspect and thus can be sued by the injured passengers, a divided Maryland Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. In its ...

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SILVER SPRING — Police shot a man upset with the Discovery Channel network’s programming who took three people hostage at the company’s headquarters Wednesday, officials said. All three hostages escaped safely. Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger said he did ...

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A Baltimore grand jury has returned an indictment against three city police officers, charging them with kidnapping of two teenagers last year. The State’s Attorney’s Office says the grand jury returned the 14-count indictments on Tuesday. The officers are 32-year-old ...

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